Welcome to the world were your car, TV, smoke detector, thermostat, and even your coffee maker connects to the Internet.  Don’t believe me?  Well Gartner says we will have 4.9 BILLION connected devices in use by the end of this year.  This number also includes the usual suspects in the form of our PCs,…

How many of you have that “one thing” you need to get done that you just can’t seem to find the motivation to get done?  Or you realize you have taken on too much to get done with the time you have?  I hate to admit it but I seem to do this all the…

Welcome to 2016!  This stands to be one of the most exciting or terrifying years in my life depending on how I look at it.  But either way change is coming and I have to decide how to approach it.  Recently someone said to me change comes in one of two forms, change because pain…

With a title like that I bet you think I am going to kick the “end of 2015 start of 2016” horse one more time don’t you? Well not this time, instead I wanted to use this space this month to reflect on how technology has changed and influenced me over my 40 years of…

I had the privilege of attending the Mercer University Executive Forum the other night to listen to David Cumming speak about innovation and entrepreneurship. He told his story of starting businesses and supporting entrepreneurs in Atlanta and Georgia. He tried to make some important points for where Macon could go if it embraced startups and…

Welcome officially to Q4 2015.  Time flies when your busy with your head down working hard each day both at work and at home.  So much so we can go a long time without really stopping to look at where we have been, where we want to go and whether we are on track to…

How many of us have continued to do something in hopes of what we want the outcome to be will all of a sudden just happen?  I know I’ve used this thinking from time to time.  Putting on an old pair of pants and just hoping “Maybe this time they will fit” even though I…

First, welcome to the middle of Q3 2015.  Yep we aren’t just half way through the year we are half way through Q3 for the year.  I continue to be amazed with the fact that no one has found a way to get a few more hours added to each week but until they do…

When Keith Ferrazzi titled his book Never Eat Alone I am not sure he meant it literally.  He was trying to get across the power of time spent interacting with people in building great relationships and I agree it is very important to spend time interacting with people well.  We can all do it better both…